The Nuremburg Tribunal, which was established after World War II, recognised this by trying Julius Streicher, the publisher of a major newspaper affiliated with the Nazi regime. [...] The International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD), adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1965, identifies four kinds of hate speech: 1. [...] CERD, as well as international human rights law more broadly, recognises that like all limitations on freedom of expression hate speech restrictions must be drafted according to the established standards of being clearly enumerated in law, strictly necessary to achieve their aim and proportional to that aim and min. [...] In terms of the proscribed results, statements which incite actual violence clearly qualify, although it is worth noting that most countries have general rules prohibiting any incitement to commit crimes. [...] A Joint Statement by the UN, OSCE and OAS Special Mandates on the right to freedom of expression set out several conditions for hate speech legislation, including that it should not penalise statements which are true, that it should not be imposed via prior censorship, that the right of journalists to make.
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